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Guangdong University of Finance is a provincial public general undergraduate college and the only financial college in South China. The school was founded by the People's Bank of China in 1950 and is an institution with the "central bank genes". In 2004, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the school was upgraded from a "college" to an "undergraduate" and recruited the first batch of undergraduates; in 2012, it recruited the first batch of finance majors; in 2012, it recruited the first batch of students from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan; 2014 In 2016, it recruited the first batch of international students; in 2016, it cooperated with the University of Nottingham in the UK and the University of Ningbo-Nottingham to jointly recruit doctoral students.
The school upholds the school motto of "Mentality, Acute Learning, Perseverance, and Achievement", promotes the spirit of "Encourage learning, teaching, seeking truth and innovation", and insists on "finance as the root, education for people, application first, and innovation as the model". School-running philosophy, relying on the industry, based in Guangdong, facing the whole country, and guided by economic and social needs, cultivate high-level financial and applied talents with innovative spirit and a sense of social responsibility. In the 67 years since the establishment of the school, the school has delivered more than 200,000 talents of various types to the society. It is known as the "Cradle of Financial Talents in South China" and the "Whampoa Military Academy of Nanyue Finance". , The financial industry is famous".
The school now has the Guangzhou campus and the Zhaoqing campus, covering a total area of nearly 900 acres. The headquarters of the Guangzhou school is located in Longdong, Tianhe, and the Zhaoqing campus is located on the banks of the Seven Star Lake.
The school has 18 colleges (campus, departments), and currently has 44 undergraduate majors, covering 6 disciplines of economics, management, law, literature, science, and engineering, forming the mainstay of economics, management, and law. , A large financial discipline structure supported by literature, science, and engineering. Finance, applied economics, business administration and economic law are key disciplines in Guangdong Province, and finance is a specialty of the Ministry of Education. Established the first batch of national, Guangdong's first Internet finance major and Guangdong's first actuarial major, and has the most complete financial professional system among similar universities. The Financial Subject Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center is a national experimental teaching demonstration center, the Financial Subject Virtual Simulation Experimental Center is a national virtual simulation experimental center, and the Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Guangzhou Branch Practice Teaching Base is a national off-campus practical teaching base for college students. At the same time, it has a large number of provincial-level quality courses, a provincial-level talent training model innovation experimental zone, a provincial-level applied talent demonstration base, a provincial-level collaborative education platform, and a provincial-level teaching and research team.
The school currently has nearly 23,000 full-time general undergraduate students, more than 120 full-time professional postgraduates, more than 160 foreign students, and nearly 24,000 adult education undergraduates. There are more than 1,200 faculty members, including nearly 1,000 full-time teachers. A group of part-time (honorary) professors have also been hired in academia, industry and politics.
The school insists on opening up schools and strengthens inter-school, school administration, and school-enterprise collaboration. The school cooperates with more than 40 well-known foreign universities, including the University of West Alabama in the United States, the University of the West of England in the United Kingdom, and the University of Western Australia in Australia, to jointly train undergraduates and postgraduates. Cooperated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom to establish the "Guangdong-Nottingham Advanced Institute of Finance" to carry out high-end financial talent training, high-end financial research, and high-end think tank construction; with the People's Bank of China Financial Research Institute, Guangdong Provincial Finance Office, People's Bank of China Guangzhou Branch and other institutions Cooperate, jointly organize high-end forums, cooperate in the compilation and release of financial innovation white papers, and form a financial think tank alliance. Carry out extensive cooperation with local governments such as Meizhou, Jieyang, Shanwei, Zhaoqing, Shantou, Guangdong Financial High-tech Zone, Foshan Nanhai, etc. in policy consultation, talent exchange, etc.; cooperate with Guangsheng Group, Agricultural Bank of China Guangdong Branch, Guangzhou Daily Group, etc. Enterprises implement comprehensive cooperation in areas such as personnel training and scientific research.
The school strives to improve scientific research and social service capabilities. In recent years, it has successively established the Guangdong Provincial Cultivation and Construction Collaborative Innovation Development Center (Guangdong Characteristic Financial Construction Collaborative Innovation Development Center), the Guangdong Key Cultivation Think Tank (South China Institute of Innovation Finance), and the Guangdong Provincial General University Humanities and Social Science Key Research Base (Regional Finance) Policy Research Center), Guangdong Province Innovation Team (Regional Financial Policy Research Team), and Guangdong Province Policy Consultation and Decision-making Base (Guangdong Province Science and Technology Finance Research Center) and other major scientific research platforms; formed the "China Finance Forum-Guangjin Qiandeng Lake Finance Four major forum systems, including “Summit”, “China Technology and Finance Summit Forum”, “South China Credit Management Forum”, “China·Southern Financial Rule of Law Forum”; hosted or participated in the completion of the “Twelfth Five-Year” and “Tenth” Three-five-year plan for financial development and credit system development. Many research reports have been approved by Wang Yang, Hu Chunhua, Ren Xuefeng, Chen Yunxian, Chen Jianhua and other leaders, and relevant policy recommendations have been adopted by many governments. Newspapers and periodicals are mainly reproduced in the catalog of source journals, and it has become the three authoritative index journals of CSSCI, Peking University Chinese Core, and Humanities Core of the Academy of Social Sciences.
The school has been selected as one of the first batch of ordinary undergraduate colleges and universities in Guangdong Province to transform into application-oriented pilot universities. The school is actively transforming to an application-oriented model in accordance with the timetable and roadmap set forth in the "Implementation Plan for Building a High-Level Applied Industry Featured Financial Brand University (2016-2020)".
The school has established its development goal as "building a well-known domestic application-oriented financial brand university, becoming a supporter of the construction of a strong financial province in Guangdong, a leader in the development of regional financial undertakings, and a model of high-end national financial education", and strive to build the "Guangdong University of Finance" ".